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I'm proud of Geelong. We have a lovely city - wonderful beaches, friendly people and great facilities. Like any metropolis though, we have problems with Trash, and today I got to meet her face to face. After having spent a very pleasant morning photographing the…
Software Freedom Day 2009 was held at the Melbourne PC User Group rooms at Chadstone shopping centre on 19th September 09. Organised by Brianna Laugher, President of WikiMedia Australia, and Donna Benjamin, President of Linux Users' Victoria, the event aimed to showcase the numerous free…
BarCampMelbourne 2009 was, in a nutshell, awesome! The event generated ideas, promoted discussion and got people thinking about what's possible with technology, why it's possible and how to make things happen. BarCampMelbourne was held at UrbanCamp, a facility designed primarily for school groups located in…
BarCampMelbourne 2009 is nearly upon us, and Ben and I have been madly getting stuff organised for 12th-13th September. We have an amazing venue at UrbanCamp Royal Park, with photos thanks to Donna Benjamin. The sponsorship has been a little slow in coming but we're…
The BarCampMelbourne organisers have been hard at it again - this time putting together an event at Royal Park, Melbourne at UrbanCamp, set to take place over the weekend of 12th-13th September. So, we're putting out the call for sponsors to help support the event…
It's been cold and frosty, so obviously wonderful knitting weather! I'm bored to tears with the Lift and Separate, so have been doing a miriad of side projects such as the Stolen Moments wrap. This looks deceptively simple - a drop stitch / increase openwork…
CeBIT is a 3-day conference which focuses on business technology and IT solutions, and is held every year in Australia. Companies exhibit at CeBIT, hoping to build brand awareness and promote their service offerings. This year, Australian domain name registration and web hosting company Netregistry…
Ada Lovelace Day celebrates inspirational women in technology. This post is dedicated to Quinn Norton, a journalist who specialises in covering the fields of body hacking and functional body modification. Unusual choice? You bet! Inspirational? Definitely :) Body hacking is, like all other forms of…
Donna Benjamin is President of Linux Users' Victoria and is quite influential in the open source community. Her talk at StixCampNewstead was on the open source product 'Inkscape' - which provides a free alternative to programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Fireworks. Most people at…
Zach Miller is based in Chicago and works as a developer. His presentation was on the separation of model, view and controller layers in application design - otherwise known as MVC architecture. He introduced the topic by explaining that programmers and designers have different skillbases…